Angry Workers of the World
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Jun 19 2013 20:37
Angry Workers of the World -
Unruly and Irregular Workers' Paper from London. For Communist Class Inquiry.
Three days of protests against Big Boats in Venice
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jun 14 2013 20:19
The committee against Big Boats continues its mobilization in Venice, with three days of rallies, assemblies and other initiatives to create awareness on the damage caused by enormous cruise liners in the lagoon.
A 100-year-old idea that could transform the labor movement
An article by Daniel Gross suggesting that the old Local 8 of the IWW has lessons to teach the labor movement of today.
"I work beside my shit. I eat beside my shit.": impressions from the dockworkers strike in Hong Kong
An article by Frido Wenten based on talking with a dockworker in Hong Kong during the Spring 2013 strikes.
Not Jolly: Genoa dock workers protest after the disaster
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on May 10 2013 16:20
Two workers are still missing and seven were found dead at the Port of Genoa, after the Jolly Nero, a cargo ship, hit the pilots’ control tower on the night of Tuesday May 7.
Cargo ship destroys building at the Port of Genoa: 7 dead
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on May 8 2013 18:20
Seven dock workers lost their lives on Tuesday May 7, when the cargo ship Jolly Nero hit a pilots' tower in the Port of Genoa. This incident draws attention on the shocking lack of safety of maritime workers in Italy, the country with the highest number of work-related deaths across the entire continent.
Philadelphia's lords of the docks: interracial unionism wobbly style - Peter Cole
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Feb 27 2013 20:19
A short paper written by Peter Cole for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (July 2007)
The Belfast police mutiny of 1907 - John Gray
A history of the mutiny of 70% of the Belfast police force during a dockers' strike which brought together Catholic and Protestant workers in struggle.
Labour law and order
Submitted by wojtek on Nov 2 2012 23:56
An article by Preston Clements for Freedom on the repeal of the Trades Dispute Act in 1946 and the reactionary nature of both the Labour Party and T.U.C.
Effects of automation in the lives of longshoremen
Submitted by IDP on Oct 23 2012 06:16
This chapter in Stan Weir's Singlejack Solidarity tells the history of how, from the victory in the 1934 General Strike through the first Mechanization & Modernization (M&M) Agreement in 1961, longshore workers in San Francisco had 27 years of near-total control of the labor process on the waterfront in the "largest, longest, and most successful formal experiment in workers' control ever conducted in the United States."
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